[Doug]

Sorry for changing the topic, and I don't mean to get off on a rant here, but one improvement I would like to see on the forums is less general disdain for "newbies." It amazes me the extent that people will go to classify each other in order to feel superior to others.

Note the fallacy here: "newbies and annoying topics"; i.e., If you are new, all your topics/posts will be annoying.
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As for the inevitable: I am so pissed that Squeek's Exoddus is not going to be on the PS4 and When is SligStorm going to be on the PC? topics, that's why people come here: to find out information about OWI from people who pay attention to the details. I find it incredibly rude when members roll their eyes and act put out when people come along wanting to find out things about OWI games. If you want to feel superior, feel superior while being a font of courteously-delivered Oddworld information instead of disdainfully wondering how people could actually be occupying their lives with something else than Oddworld.

It is my personal experience that those who have a tendency to post annoying topics will do so from the beginning and continue to do so, regardless of their "experience" on the forums. Those who have valuable contributions to make will also do so from the outset. In real life, when you judge someone by their appearance or their age or their nationality or their sex, it's called bigotry. If members make annoying posts, go ahead and PM them or complain to a moderator. However, let's not judge people by when they happened to show up here.

Of course, that's just my opinion; I could be wrong.

P.S. to TheKhanzumer. Sorry if you're feeling picked on. You're not the worst offender by any means; you just happened to post the lastest example of Oddworld snobbery. On the other hand, you might keep in mind that when you haven't even been here two months a lot of people might consider you to be a newbie. No one should care unless you make annoying posts, and it's because of the annoying posts, not the fact that you're new.